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Table 2.

The summary of amounts of MSG in varieties of food matrixes in the world.

Literature	Countries	Food Matrixes and the Concentrations
Skurray G.R. et al. (1988) [38]	Austria	Fresh foods (0.077−7.57 g kg⁻¹) ^a; processed foods (0.0006 to 78.51 g kg⁻¹) ^a
Rhodes J. et al. (1991) [29]	United Kingdom	Meat and meat products (0.03–0.81%) ^b; fish (0.39%) ^b; vegetables (0.14–2.68%) ^b; fruits (0.48%) ^b; cereals (0.17–0.29%) ^b; pizza (0.92–2.06%) ^b; miscellaneous (0.33–8.70%) ^b
Bodor R. et al. (2001) [39]	Slovakia	Beef stock (148.8 g kg⁻¹) ^c; meat stock (71 g kg⁻¹) ^c; vegetable soup (52.4 g kg⁻¹) ^c
Populin T. et al. (2007) [35]	Italy	Broths, soups, sauces, and salad dressings (1.29 g kg ¹) ^d
Acebal C.C. et al. (2008) [36]	Argentina	Beef stocks, chicken stock, stew stock (2.63 ± 0.09–11.93 ± 0.65 g dm ⁻³) a
Isa I. et al. (2009) [40]	Malaysia	Seasoning (4.8 ± 0.2–21.3 ± 0.4%) ^a; chicken soup (5.8 ± 0.2%) ^c; Chinese soup (7.8 ± 0.3%) ^c; mushroom soup (2.8 ± 0.2%) ^c
Krishna V.N. (2010) [41]	India	Masala (49.66 ± 1.34 g kg⁻¹) ^c; soup (24.59 ± 1.47 g kg⁻¹) ^c; cubes (133.50 ± 0.84 g kg⁻¹) ^c
Acebal C.C. et al. (2010) [42]	Argentina	Dehydrated meat broths, dehydrated vegetable broths (0.17 ± 0.01–1.65 ± 0.02 g dm⁻³) ^a
Croitoru M. et al. (2010) [43]	Romania	Soup cubes, salamis, hams, vegetable mixes (0.37–119.95 g kg⁻¹) ^a
Afraa A. et al. (2013) [44]	Syrian	Cream of mushroom soup, vegetable soups, lentil soups, noodle soups, hamburgers (0.93–4.9 g kg⁻¹) ^a
Cebi N. et al. (2018) [11]	Turkey	Chips, taste cubes, sauces, soups, etc. (0.1–153.9 g kg⁻¹) ^a
This study (2023)	China	Cereals (0.35 ± 0.28 g kg⁻¹), legumes (1.38 ± 1.33 g kg⁻¹), potatoes (0.77 ± 0.79 g kg⁻¹), meats (1.71 ± 1.64 g kg⁻¹), eggs (0.22 ± 0.55 g kg⁻¹), aquatic foods (2.28 ± 2.47 g kg⁻¹), and vegetables (1.42 ± 1.11 g kg⁻¹) ^e

^a: (min–max) ^b: (means) ^c: (n = 1) ^d: (max) ^e: (mean ± SD).